Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Anna Viktoria German (February 14, 1936 August 26, 1982) was a popular Soviet-born Polish singer of German/Dutch origin. Anna German was born in Urgench, a city with a 22-thousand population in northwestern Uzbekistan, USSR. Her mother, Irma Martens, was the descendent of Dutch Mennonites invited to Russia by Catherine II. Her father, Eugeniusz Hörmann, was an accountant of German descent, born in ód , Poland. In 1937 he was executed by the NKVD in Urgench on the charges of spying. Anna and her mother were deported to Kyrgyzstan. In 1946 she with her mother, who married a Armia Ludowa officer, settled in Nowa Ruda, before moving to Wroc aw in 1949.